Importing Media

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Importing Media
Windows Movie Maker
BASICS
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Objectives
 Capture video directly from a digital video
camera
 Import video clips
 Use Movie Maker collections
 Importing Multiple Videos
 Import pictures
 Import audio files

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Vocabulary
 Audio Video
Interleaved (AVI)
files
 Collections
 Digital Camera
Image Management
(DCIM)
 IEEE 1394 port
 USB port
 Windows Media
Video (WMV) files

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Capturing Video
 The acceptable video formats that can be imported directly from your
digital video camera into Movie Maker are Windows Media Video
(WMV) files or Audio Video Interleaved (AVI) files
 In order to capture the video, you need to plug the video camera into
either the USB port or the IEEE 1394 port of your computer.
 The USB (Universal Serial Bus) port is standard on all computers and
can be used to plug in a variety of components such as mice,
keyboards, printers, scanners, and digital cameras.
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 The IEEE 1394 port, often referred
to as a FireWire connection, is a
high-speed connection that offers
superior transfer of video.

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Importing Videos
 When browsing a Flip VideoTM camera, or if the
camera saves the files to a memory card, you will
search for a file folder called DCIM
 DCIM stands for Digital Camera Image
Management.
 You can import video files with the following file
name extensions into Windows Movie Maker: .asf,
.avi, .dvr-ms, .f1v, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpe, .mpeg,
.mpg, .mpv2, .wm, and .wmv.

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Importing Videos (continued)
 Acceptable video files and their extensions
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Using Movie Maker Collections
 Using collections in Windows Movie Maker is a lot
like using file folders to keep track of the files on your
computer.
 Click Imported Media to display all of the media
clips in the middle Contents Pane.

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Importing Multiple Videos
 Click the Location button at the top of the
screen to display a drop-down list
 Click the Show or hide tasks button to
show the Tasks pane again and click Videos
on the Task Pane.
 Windows Movie Maker should remember the
location of the last media file you imported,
and should open to the Data Disk collections
folder.
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Importing Pictures
 Two of the most common extensions are .jpg
and .tif. A .tif file is much bigger because it is
not compressed.
 Animated images are usually saved as a .gif
file.
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Importing Pictures (continued)
 Acceptable picture files and their extensions
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Importing Audio
 The following audio file types can be
imported into Movie Maker: .aif, .aiff, .aifc,
.asf, .au, .mp2, .mp3, .mpa, .snd, .wav, and
.wma.
 Two common extensions are .wav and .mp3.
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Importing Audio (continued)
 Acceptable audio files and their extensions
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Importing Audio (continued)
 Importing Music:
 According to copyright law, only 30 seconds
of copyrighted music or 10 percent of the
song (whichever is less) can be inserted into
a multimedia project without requesting
permission from the author.
 Schools can purchase the rights to royalty-
free music by paying a subscription fee.
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Importing Audio (continued)
 Importing Voice Audio Files:
 By using a sound-editing program, you can
record and edit your voice.
 The sound clip can then be saved as an
acceptable sound file that can be imported.
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Importing Audio (continued)
 Narrating the Timeline:
 You can create your own audio file.
 In Movie Maker, you can record audio directly to
the project on which you are currently working.
 You will need to have a microphone available to
create the narration.
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Importing Audio (continued)
 Narrating the Timeline (cont):
 The Narrate Timeline screen
appears with a small meter
displaying the strength of the
microphone signal.
 Click Show options to see the time
of the narration captured, the
available time, options allowing
you to limit the narration to free
spaces on the Timeline so you
don’t narrate over other sounds,
and the option to mute the
speakers.
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Summary
In this lesson, you learned:
 Video can be captured and directly imported into a
project from a digital video camera.
 Video clips saved to the hard drive or other storage
device can be imported into a Movie Maker project.
 Pictures and audio files can be imported into a
project.
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Summary (continued)
 Hold Ctrl and click to select individual media files.
 Folders called collections can be created to organize
the media files.
 Media files can be easily moved between collections.
 Hold Ctrl and press the letter A to select all media
files.
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